Track 3:

Lovefool (Snooper Version)

Performed and produced by Snooper
Written by Peter Svensson & Nina Persson/Song of PolyGram, Inc (publishing)
Original version appears on William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet

Lovefool is a wonderful track featured on the Romeo + Juliet soundtrack and a perfect Juliet theme for early in the film. However, the Snooper version featured on Something for Everybody has a very different feel about it!

It is sung by a deep voiced male artist called Snooper, hence the extended title of the track. I must admit, I actually find this song quite amusing. I cracked up laughing the first few times I heard it, and I just loved his drawn out style of speaking the lyrics. This remixed song is quite different to the original version performed by The Cardigans, and yet it also has that same sense of fun about it. It may take you a while to get used to this track if you're already familiar with the original, but it definitely grows on you and really is a great remix.

Unfortunately, Baz's comments below only relate to the original song, as featured on the Romeo + Juliet soundtrack. I would really have liked to have known how this remixed version came to be recorded and added to Something For Everybody.

Here's what Baz Luhrmann had to say about Lovefool (Snooper version):

"During post production, while working with editor Jill Bilcock, we still had not been able to find the appropriate Juliet theme for the first half of the film. The sound we were searching for needed to be innocent yet witty and I remember hearing such a sound in a song that was on high rotation on our housekeeper's radio in Mexico City. After humming the tune to many a music supervisor, it was eventually identified as "Carnival" by an unknown band called The Cardigans. Peter Svensson, the main writer in the band, was very keen to collaborate on the Juliet theme and after a couple of early suggestions we finally established Lovefool as the perfect choice."